2023-09-29 22:22:10
On Saturday, September 30th, the book of history records, among other things:
1888: In Vienna-Währing, the Türkenschanzpark is opened to the public.
1918: The German Emperor Wilhelm II dismisses Chancellor Georg Graf Hertling.
1918: British troops enter Damascus. The Hashemite Prince Faisal, leader of the Arab revolt against the Turks, claims the city for his father Hussein ibn Ali, Grand Sherif of Mecca, who had himself proclaimed King of Arabia in 1917.
1928: The Nazi party NSDAP and Joseph Goebbels held a mass rally for the first time in the Berlin Sports Palace.
1938: In a joint statement in Munich, Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain assured that their peoples would never again wage war against each other. Under pressure from the British and French, Prague accepts the Munich Agreement. Poland and Hungary claim parts of Czechoslovakia’s territory.
1938: The Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan conducts for the first time in the Berlin State Opera. Ludwig van Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” will be given.
1943: In Italy, German troops begin to evacuate Naples.
1983: The “Nintendo EAD” is founded as “Nintendo Research & Development 4”. Shigeru Miyamoto took over the management, and in 1989 the department was renamed “Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development” (EAD).
1988: The Soviet head of state Andrei Gromyko resigns, clearing the way for party leader Mikhail Gorbachev to create a new presidential office with extensive powers.
1993: A devastating earthquake in India claims at least 30,000 lives.
1998: After the ban on performances was lifted, pieces by Thomas Bernhard are premiering again for the first time in around ten years. In the Vienna Academy Theater, Philip Tiedemann stages the three dramas “Claus Peymann leaves Bochum and goes to Vienna as Burgtheater director”, “Claus Peymann buys a pair of trousers and goes to dinner with me” and “Claus Peymann and Hermann Beil on the Sulzwiese”.
2003: The USA is returning to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which it had accused of mismanagement.
2008: In eastern California, a hiker finds items that belong to adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared in September 2007. A few days later, Fossett’s plane wreckage and pieces of bone were found. At the beginning of November, a DNA test confirmed that these were the remains of the person being sought.
2008: A mass panic at a Hindu temple in Jodhpur in western India leaves 224 people dead and more than 150 injured. The panic is triggered when a wall collapses under the onslaught of more than 25,000 believers, burying several people.
Birthdays: Ferdinand of Saar, Eastern. Narrator and poet (1833-1906); Dawid Oistrakh, Soviet violin virtuoso (1908-1974); Edzard Schaper, German writer (1908-1984); Elie Wiesel, US author and Nobel Peace Prize winner 1986 (1928-2016); Johann Deisenhofer, German biophysicist; Nobel Prize 1988 (1943); Marcus Mautner Markhof, eastern Entrepreneur (1958).
Days of death: Walter Abendroth, German composer (1896-1973); Israel Gutman, Israeli Shoah researcher (1923-2013).
Name days: Hieronymus, Viktor, Ansberta, Ursus, Ursula, Otto, Hadwig, Simon, Gregorius, Theresia.
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